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May 13, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Morgan Godvin |Joseph Friedman
In a move widely hailed as a failure for the drug decriminalization movement, Oregon restored criminal penalties for low-level drug possession in April. Headlines chalked up this policy reversal to mounting overdoses, evoking a crisis in the state. In reality, Oregon’s overdose rate remains in the middle of the pack nationally, with more than half of U.S. states having a greater number of deaths per capita.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | Morgan Godvin
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Sam Besson is the curator of sheet music and popular culture at Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | Morgan Godvin |Al Ware |Mark Fischetti
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. “In the year 2024….” read the headline of an editor’s message in a 1970 issue of The Presidio, a publication out of the Iowa State Penitentiary. Even for people in prison, whose primary currency is time itself, the date felt far-fetched. Something so distant, it was more the setting of a science fiction novel than of a real-life possibility.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
northcoastcitizen.com | Morgan Godvin
Experts – and editorials – have recently claimed that no one has been imprisoned for drug use for years, long before Measure 110 was approved in 2020. But that is not accurate. You don’t have to be sent to prison to be incarcerated for drug use. I know. Between 2013 to 2014, I was jailed for 65 days for drug possession. And I’m not the only one. From 2018 to 2019, more than 3,100 Multnomah County residents were charged with drug possession, according to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
thenewsguard.com | Morgan Godvin
Experts – and editorials – have recently claimed that no one has been imprisoned for drug use for years, long before Measure 110 was approved in 2020. But that is not accurate. You don’t have to be sent to prison to be incarcerated for drug use. I know. Between 2013 to 2014, I was jailed for 65 days for drug possession. And I’m not the only one. From 2018 to 2019, more than 3,100 Multnomah County residents were charged with drug possession, according to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
tillamookheadlightherald.com | Morgan Godvin
Experts – and editorials – have recently claimed that no one has been imprisoned for drug use for years, long before Measure 110 was approved in 2020. But that is not accurate. You don’t have to be sent to prison to be incarcerated for drug use. I know. Between 2013 to 2014, I was jailed for 65 days for drug possession. And I’m not the only one. From 2018 to 2019, more than 3,100 Multnomah County residents were charged with drug possession, according to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
polkio.com | Morgan Godvin
Experts – and editorials – have recently claimed that no one has been imprisoned for drug use for years, long before Measure 110 was approved in 2020. But that is not accurate. You don’t have to be sent to prison to be incarcerated for drug use. I know. Between 2013 to 2014, I was jailed for 65 days for drug possession. And I’m not the only one. From 2018 to 2019, more than 3,100 Multnomah County residents were charged with drug possession, according to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
cgsentinel.com | Morgan Godvin
Experts – and editorials – have recently claimed that no one has been imprisoned for drug use for years, long before Measure 110 was approved in 2020. But that is not accurate. You don’t have to be sent to prison to be incarcerated for drug use. I know. Between 2013 to 2014, I was jailed for 65 days for drug possession. And I’m not the only one. From 2018 to 2019, more than 3,100 Multnomah County residents were charged with drug possession, according to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
dailyastorian.com | Morgan Godvin
Experts — and editorials — have recently claimed that no one has been imprisoned for drug use for years, long before Measure 110 was approved in 2020. But that is not accurate. You don’t have to be sent to prison to be incarcerated for drug use. I know. Between 2013 to 2014, I was jailed for 65 days for drug possession. kAmp?5 x’> ?@E E96 @?=J @?6]k^AmkAmuC@> a_`g E@ a_`h[ >@C6 E92? b[`__ |F=E?@>29 r@F?EJ C6D:56?ED H6C6 492C865 H:E9 5CF8 A@DD6DD:@?[ 244@C5:?8 E@ E96 ~C68@?
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Dec 30, 2023 | 
currypilot.com | Morgan Godvin
Experts – and editorials – have recently claimed that no one has been imprisoned for drug use for years, long before Measure 110 was approved in 2020. But that is not accurate. You don’t have to be sent to prison to be incarcerated for drug use. I know. Between 2013 to 2014, I was jailed for 65 days for drug possession. And I’m not the only one. From 2018 to 2019, more than 3,100 Multnomah County residents were charged with drug possession, according to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.
